Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coa...ches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

They [children] are autonomously capable of making meaning from their daily life experiences through mental acts involving plannin...g, coordination of ideas, and abstraction.... The central act of adults, therefore, is to activate, especially indirectly, the meaning-making competencies of children as a basis of all learning. They must try to capture the right moments, and then find the right approaches, for bringing together, into a fruitful dialogue, their meanings and interpretations with those children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »